Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-06

questions. In short, he win lead you
to believe that he is the incest fellow
you ever met, and before you realize
the fact you have given the fatal mort
gage. The expensive machinery is not
sheltered. 1t stands out in the yard at |
the mercy of the wind, rain, storm and
stock. The mortgage becomes due; You
are not ready to meet it. You make a
little loan to pay the interest on the
machinery that has in the mean time
rotted. Then the note that has once
been extenced is refused second ex-
tension and you must make another
usurious loan to pay it of. This IS the
equivalent to opening two holes to stop
one. The next year you imagine you
will surely get out. You raise a large
acreage of wheat; you hire help, and
pay out an enormous amount of money
for interest and expenses. Here comes
a disappointment. Your yield is not
what you anticipated; prices are low;
the sheriff forecloses the mortgages and
your home is swept from your grasp,
This is not a simple supposltious case.
1t has occurred in q thousand instances
and is daily being repeated. Machinery
has proven the ruin of many man. 1t
does not pay to experiment with
wheat, unless you have lots of money
and can raise it on large scale; and,
even then, it is an open question as to
whether it pays or not. In harvesting
time hire some one to cut your grain
and pay him back either in work or
money. You can do this for less than
the interest on binder. Better still,
take an old fashioned cradle and cut it
yourself. You will then enjoy hearty
meal and praise the Lord who lead you
into this land of promise. Follow this
programme and you have good start,
but to continue, you must avoid another
temptation and that is proving up.
Some day a benevolent looking land
agent might advise you, 1--WE know they
sometimes do) that you are not doing
+; justice to your dear family. You should
not allow them to live IN that old sod
shack any longer. That you should in
3 fact, prove up and arrange some COM
forts about you. If you take this ad-
vice let us see how you will fare. Say
you get loan of $500. You must first
t pay the government $500 Communication
e money; expense of proof $s5; bonus tc
e benevolent land agent for securing
q lean, x25. Total $3.50. This will leave
: you $3.50. For this privilege you will
+ pay annually $50 interest and $s5 taxes
Q A total of @75 per year for the privilege
of expending $3.50, Here commence,
s the second chanter. The $3.50 is ex
9 pended and you wonder where it ha'
d gone. At the end Of the ave years th,
8 loan becomes due and you must pay tn,
J $500. You have during that time pait
It 1876 in interest and taxes, making ;
s. total Of sS7s, all paid out for the use O
e $3.50 for five years. An interest equi
e valent to six pei cent a month. Thel
OI the little chattle mortgages are liabl
It to follow to pay thus interest. If yo,
n have practiced both pieces of folly :
e proved up and bought machinery, hov
G can you expect to weather ths storm
It of high rate OF interest. After con
IS tinuous residence of hve years you Col
s "prove up" at an expense not to exceed
eI s25. In the mean time your live stool
t. has increased. You have gradually in
S creased your acreage. You have som
+ hogs and cattle ready Tor the market
IL Your sod shack has disappeared t
n make room for cozy little frame dwel
o ling. The trees planted by your indust
a rious hands Ave years sgo are nov
y throwing a delicious shade in which
group Of happy children sport. Abov
a all, yoa have the knowledge that wha
!? others have spent for machinery an,
d to enrich the rich yo,i have applied o,
Q your own property unencumbered, an
6 have by your own e1ertions and econ
e omy made a home for your wife an
Is children. "Be it ever so humble, there
e no place like home"
II Proprietary MEDICINES.
It A visit to DR.. Green's Laboratory, q
l. Woodbury., n. j., has considerabl
n changed our views, and especially ou
If p1ejudices in regard to what are gener
II ally known as STANDARD Patent lMedl
II cines." OF course we are getting tt
|. that age in life when we, are forced t.
n conclude Life. itself is hpmbug, ant
r. naturally !listrpst anything that ha
v Lot withstpod LONG and tried experien